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Rui Shi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Chemical Engineering
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  • Institutes of Energy and Environment
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229 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building

rms6987@psu.edu

814-863-6590

Research Website

Google Scholar Profile

Research Areas:

Energy and Environment

Interest Areas:

Life cycle assessment; sustainable design; biofuels & bioproducts; food-energy-water-waste nexus; advanced computational modeling; decision-making under uncertainty.

 
 

 

Education

Publications

Research Projects

  • August 2021 - June 2027, "Collaborative Proposal: ECO-CBET: Putting entropy to work: Leveraging the role of water organization in peptide binding events to selectively recover rare earths," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).
  • January 2022 - December 2025, "Chemical Recycling of Mixed PET/Polyolefin Streams Through Sequential Pyrolysis and Catalytic Upgrading," (Sponsor: The REMADE Institute).
  • May 2023 - September 2025, "Center for Bioenergy Innovation," (Sponsor: Battelle - Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
  • January 2023 - December 2025, "FMSG: ECO: Towards Circular Manufacturing of Hydrocarbon Feedstocks from Plastic Waste," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).
  • May 2022 - December 2024, "Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Analysis of Plant-base Ingredients Production," (Sponsor: Motif Foodworks, Inc.).

Honors and Awards

Service

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